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www.biostars.org - MAKER is a great tool for annotating a reference genome using empirical and ab initiogene predictions. GMOD, the umbrella organization that includes MAKER, has some nice tutorials online for running MAKER. However, these were quite...

Roche has acquired Bina Technologies, a privately-owned biotech company based in California.

amos.sourceforge.net - We present the first collection of tools aimed at automated genome assembly validation. This work formalizes several mechanisms for detecting mis-assemblies, and describes their implementation in our automated validation pipeline,...

Python 3.5 to include ‘type hinting’

geval.sanger.ac.uk - The gEVAL Browser allows the evaluation of genome assemblies through its tools and pre-computed analyses. The strength of this browser is the ability to navigate an up to date assembly and identify problematic regions and assist in...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Cancer Systems Biology Department of Oncology, Old Road Campus Research Building, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford Grade 7: £30,434 - £37,394 with a discretionary range to £40,847 p.a. Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral...

www.melbournebioinformatics.org.au - Written and maintained by Simon Gladman - Melbourne Bioinformatics (formerly VLSCI) Protocol Overview / Introduction In this protocol we discuss and outline the process of de novo assembly for small to medium sized...

BioInformatics introduces 'Interactive Market Intelligence', a cloud-based market research tool for life science industry

schneebergerlab.github.io - SyRI is a comprehensive tool for predicting genomic differences between related genomes using whole-genome assemblies (WGA). The assemblies are aligned using whole-genome alignment tools, and these alignments are then used as input to SyRI. SyRI...